Copperbelt Province mobile hospital services coordinator Alex Mukape has said the introduction of mobile hospitals will promote sharing of vital medical and technological information between medical specialists and health professionals in rural areas.
Dr. Mukape said in an interview yesterday that the introduction of mobile hospitals has created an opportunity where rural-based medical staff would be empowered with latest technical knowledge through practical work with teams of consultants and general medical officers assigned to the mobile facilities.
“The sharing of technical information, which is a privilege usually synonymous with medical staff working in big hospitals, is now no longer a far-fetched dream for the rural-based health professionals because of the coming in of the mobile hospitals,” Dr Mukape said.
He said apart from offering vital health services to the public, the mobile hospitals were a forum for the exchange of information between junior medical personnel, consultants and other health professionals, a rare privilege for rural-based health professionals.
Dr Mukape said mobile hospitals were so well-equipped that the services they were providing were equivalent to those of a general hospital.
He said the mobile hospitals were in a position to carry out any emergency operation in their theatres and patients could be taken to the nearest hospital for continued observation.
He said other services being offered by mobile hospitals were equivalent to those being offered by any second-level hospital in the world, including diagnostics, ultra-sound facilities, x-ray, laboratory services and drug dispensary.
Dr Mukape said the mobile health facilities were operating in remote parts of each district for one week before moving on, and that this was aimed at ensuring that as many citizens as possible were given a chance to access the best medical services at no cost.
“The Government wants to ensure that the people who have been failing to access quality medical services are reached through the mobile hospitals,” he said.
The mobile hospital launched last month on the Copperbelt is currently stationed in Chief Ndubeni’s area in Mpongwe District where it is providing health services to the local residents and those from surrounding areas.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Mwebantu twapapata lekeni Sata atushepo. Why are you scared of him if he is not a factor? Just leave my President alone. Namuya uno mwaka.
use less investment. There is already shortage of manpower in fixed health centers thats when a fo ol can think of even making it worse by bringing box vehicles. When are we going to be civilized? Its not about curative but preventive and health promotion for the citizens.
A VERY GOOD WAY TO MOTIVATE OUR CONSULTANTS. INFACT THEY SUPPORT THE IDEA. IT HAS MORE ADVANTAGES. WORKERS MAKE MISTAKES AND EVENTUALLY CORRECT THEM IDLERS JUST DREAM.
KABIYENI UKO WHICH sharing of vital data?UBUFI BWEKA BWEKA.
#3 i wonder which organ you are using for thinking….!!!!!!!!!!!!Dr Mukape you are equally sick…how do you support such useless ventures?i bet u r a dr in politics and not medicine…plz people those silly mobile clinics/hospitals will come down just like UBZ did…such silly ventures are embarked on towards election time so that fools like #3 and Mukape can vote for RB…re-think!!!!!!!!!!!
Mukape is a disgrace to the medical profession! He should be removed from the medical register for gross misconduct. What he is peddling is trash! A doctor should not lie! He is lying!!!!
Which hospital is he comparing with in the world? On which planet is he? What a load of chicken shi t?
As PF we shall ask all those people in the rural areas desperate for medical access and attention to boycott going to the mobile hospitals. I am sure the rural population would rather die in their huts than access state of the art medical facilities. After all Sata will build hospitals in all districts, constituencies and wards of Zambia within 90 days of our voting him into power.
Fake doctor! No serious doctor would support such type of hospitals in absence of supportive infrastructure! He is just pleased to be milking the system for his stomach.
I will need to travel to Zambia to see for myself. I am fed up of hearsay. We do not even have a single photograph or video of how these ‘Mobilosptals’ are operating. Whether for or against evryone is talking from without.
To all you hypocrits out there…Wait untilyou or your child is sick…will you refuse help from any hospital, be it mobile or fixed? You know the answer, so stop moaning..
#7 – fool you PF people are. Everything is 90 days…new raods in 90 days, new hospitals in 90days, new electricity in 90 days…no wonder you keep losing elections your promises are for fools, nobody believes such useless promises. after the election I will laugh at you….for 90 days!